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To: Verginius Rufus

Herodotus is good. Thucydides is better.

79 posted on 09/03/2011 4:00:31 PM PDT by BenKenobi (Honkeys for Herman!)

To: BenKenobi

Thucydides is more reliable and more profound, but Herodotus is more fun to read.

Xenophon's Anabasis is a good read...the story of the march of the Ten Thousand. The Penguin translation is called The Persian Expedition.

90 posted on 09/03/2011 5:17:12 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus

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